Music Trade Review
Issue: 1917 Vol. 65 N. 12 - Page 12
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
12
TRADE NEWS FROM THE TWIN CITIES
R. E. BRIGGS WESTWARD BOUND
GIUSEPPE VITALE PASSES AWAY
Piano Trade Shows Satisfactory Activity—
Farmers to Hold Mass Meeting—High Grade
Instruments in Demand—Other Items
R. E. Briggs, of the Briggs Piano Co., Boston,
was a caller at the warerooms of C. H. Ditson
& Co., 8 East Thirty-fourth street, New York,
on Saturday of last week, being on a trip West
which will carry him probably as far as
Omaha. He expressed himself as much pleased
with general business conditions and reported
great activity at the Briggs factory.
C. H.
Ditson & Co. carry the Briggs line in New
York with much success.
Violin Collector Dies at His Home in Brooklyn,
N. Y., This Week
MINNEAPOLIS and
ST. PAUL, MINN., September
17.—Commercial life is jogging along satisfac-
torily with the piano men of St. Paul and Minne-
apolis and seemingly they are in for a nice fall
business. Farmers in this territory are not
marketing their grain as rapidly as had been
expected. It is insinuated that they are holding
back their stores and color is lent to this
opinion by the calling of a big mass meeting
during the week of September 17 to discuss
price fixing by the federal authorities. About
5,000 people, mostly farmers, are expected to
attend. It is denied, however, that there is any
organized movement to hold back wheat and
it is explained that the failure to move the crops
is due to the desire of the farmers to take ad-
vantage of favorable weather to complete their
fall plowing.
The great activity in the music trade during
fair week fell off somewhat after the close of the
exposition but not to the extent of causing a
dull season.
R. S. Dunn, representing C. Kurtzmann &
Co., Buffalo, N. Y., who has been through Iowa
and South Dakota, reports all indications most
favorable for an excellent fall trade by the piano
men. The crops have been good everywhere
and the reported damage to corn by frost, he
says, was overestimated in the first public re-
ports. He went out to Wheaton, Minn., Satur-
day, accompanied by R. W. Bonyea, St. Paul;
R. H. Bach, Owatonna; Adolph Bach, Rochester,
and Irving Klein, Faribault, all Kurtzmann deal-
ers. All were armed with shotguns and loaded
down with shells for a contemplated attack on
mallards and anything else shootable.
"Business is better than good," reported Rob-
ert O. Foster, in behalf of Foster & Waldo.
"September opened better than our expectations
and the pace continues to be excellent. Every
indication points to a long and successful
season."
More than the customary proportion of high
class trade marks the season's opening, accord-
ing to Elmer A. Brooks, of the Brooks-Evans
Piano Co. Grand instruments are selling faster
than they can be supplied and other high-class
goods continue to grow in demand.
There is business enough to keep the entire
staff busy at the William A. Linquist Piano Co.'s
store. While not specializing in grand pianos
exactly the house interpolates a sale of that class
occasionally.
Highly satisfactory business is reported from
W. J. Dyer & Co. but without any special fea-
tures. The music schools are helping out busi-
ness by investing in instruments for their classes.
George P. Bent, who has been out in the
Canadian Rockies for a month, spent a pair of
days in the Twin Cities, mainly with his old
friend, R. O. Foster.
Edward R. Dyer, head of the Metropolitan
Music Co., has been away for some time on a
short rusticating trip, but is due at his desk to-
morrow.
CABLE NELSONJPLANT ENLARGED
The Cable Nelson Piano Co. will shortly en-
large its factory site at South Haven, Mich., by
securing additional land adjoining its present
plant. The new property was formerly part of
the plant of the Marshall Castings Co.
Henry Hamlet, who has been connected with
the music firm of Layton Bros., Montreal, Can-
ada, for over seven years, recently resigned his
position with that concern.
Giuseppe Vitale, a master violinist, a pupil
of Ole Bull and collector of some of the most
valuable violins in existence, died at his home,
No. 61 Kosciusko street, Brooklyn, on Sunday
of this week. Vitale knew the world's greatest
musicians—Bull, Sarasate, Wieniawski—was a
friend of Henry Ward Beecher and of Longfel-
low, and had played for McKinley and Roose-
velt. Vitale owned the only two genuine Stradi-
varius violins in Brooklyn. One was handed
down in the family for 150 years, and the mas-
ter violinist valued it at $12,000. He also had
two Amatis and some instruments made by
Vuillaume and Bodio. Vitale kept his $12,000
"Strad" in a safe deposit vault.
The San Jose, Cal., branch of the Wiley B.
Allen Co., has opened a sheet music department
under the management of Mrs. Grace McFall.
NO WASTE=
NO SUBSTITUTION
We can afford to reserve the
Cream of the World's Wool
Clip for
American
Piano Hammer
Felt
—because we have a use for every
one of the lesser grades of wool.
And no wool that fails by the slight-
est degree to pass the most exacting
tests to which wool can be put is
ever allowed to enter into Ameri-
can Hammer Felt. Only resilient
wool, perfect in every fibre, clipped
from healthy sheep, is good enough
for our product.
SUCCESS WITH LAUTER IN DETROIT
The Lauter Co., of Newark, N. J., recently
shipped, in one order, five Style 190 mahogany
uprights to F. W. Henrich, of Detroit, Mich.
Mr. Henrich, who is known in the trade as a
very keen judge of piano tone and a critical
musician, has had great success with the Lauter
line in Detroit, where conditions are described
as being remarkable.
American Felt
Companv
ARTHUR HAHN APPOINTED TRAVELER
Arthur Hahn, who has been in the employ of
Krakauer Bros, for several years, was appointed
traveling representative last week and is now on
a trip visiting the dealers in New York State and
Pennsylvania. Mr. Hahn's promotion is a de-
served recognition of the years of service he
has given to Krakauer Bros.
100 Summer St.
BOSTON
114 East 13th St.
NEW YORK
325 So. Market St
CHICAGO
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
12
TRADE NEWS FROM THE TWIN CITIES
R. E. BRIGGS WESTWARD BOUND
GIUSEPPE VITALE PASSES AWAY
Piano Trade Shows Satisfactory Activity—
Farmers to Hold Mass Meeting—High Grade
Instruments in Demand—Other Items
R. E. Briggs, of the Briggs Piano Co., Boston,
was a caller at the warerooms of C. H. Ditson
& Co., 8 East Thirty-fourth street, New York,
on Saturday of last week, being on a trip West
which will carry him probably as far as
Omaha. He expressed himself as much pleased
with general business conditions and reported
great activity at the Briggs factory.
C. H.
Ditson & Co. carry the Briggs line in New
York with much success.
Violin Collector Dies at His Home in Brooklyn,
N. Y., This Week
MINNEAPOLIS and
ST. PAUL, MINN., September
17.—Commercial life is jogging along satisfac-
torily with the piano men of St. Paul and Minne-
apolis and seemingly they are in for a nice fall
business. Farmers in this territory are not
marketing their grain as rapidly as had been
expected. It is insinuated that they are holding
back their stores and color is lent to this
opinion by the calling of a big mass meeting
during the week of September 17 to discuss
price fixing by the federal authorities. About
5,000 people, mostly farmers, are expected to
attend. It is denied, however, that there is any
organized movement to hold back wheat and
it is explained that the failure to move the crops
is due to the desire of the farmers to take ad-
vantage of favorable weather to complete their
fall plowing.
The great activity in the music trade during
fair week fell off somewhat after the close of the
exposition but not to the extent of causing a
dull season.
R. S. Dunn, representing C. Kurtzmann &
Co., Buffalo, N. Y., who has been through Iowa
and South Dakota, reports all indications most
favorable for an excellent fall trade by the piano
men. The crops have been good everywhere
and the reported damage to corn by frost, he
says, was overestimated in the first public re-
ports. He went out to Wheaton, Minn., Satur-
day, accompanied by R. W. Bonyea, St. Paul;
R. H. Bach, Owatonna; Adolph Bach, Rochester,
and Irving Klein, Faribault, all Kurtzmann deal-
ers. All were armed with shotguns and loaded
down with shells for a contemplated attack on
mallards and anything else shootable.
"Business is better than good," reported Rob-
ert O. Foster, in behalf of Foster & Waldo.
"September opened better than our expectations
and the pace continues to be excellent. Every
indication points to a long and successful
season."
More than the customary proportion of high
class trade marks the season's opening, accord-
ing to Elmer A. Brooks, of the Brooks-Evans
Piano Co. Grand instruments are selling faster
than they can be supplied and other high-class
goods continue to grow in demand.
There is business enough to keep the entire
staff busy at the William A. Linquist Piano Co.'s
store. While not specializing in grand pianos
exactly the house interpolates a sale of that class
occasionally.
Highly satisfactory business is reported from
W. J. Dyer & Co. but without any special fea-
tures. The music schools are helping out busi-
ness by investing in instruments for their classes.
George P. Bent, who has been out in the
Canadian Rockies for a month, spent a pair of
days in the Twin Cities, mainly with his old
friend, R. O. Foster.
Edward R. Dyer, head of the Metropolitan
Music Co., has been away for some time on a
short rusticating trip, but is due at his desk to-
morrow.
CABLE NELSONJPLANT ENLARGED
The Cable Nelson Piano Co. will shortly en-
large its factory site at South Haven, Mich., by
securing additional land adjoining its present
plant. The new property was formerly part of
the plant of the Marshall Castings Co.
Henry Hamlet, who has been connected with
the music firm of Layton Bros., Montreal, Can-
ada, for over seven years, recently resigned his
position with that concern.
Giuseppe Vitale, a master violinist, a pupil
of Ole Bull and collector of some of the most
valuable violins in existence, died at his home,
No. 61 Kosciusko street, Brooklyn, on Sunday
of this week. Vitale knew the world's greatest
musicians—Bull, Sarasate, Wieniawski—was a
friend of Henry Ward Beecher and of Longfel-
low, and had played for McKinley and Roose-
velt. Vitale owned the only two genuine Stradi-
varius violins in Brooklyn. One was handed
down in the family for 150 years, and the mas-
ter violinist valued it at $12,000. He also had
two Amatis and some instruments made by
Vuillaume and Bodio. Vitale kept his $12,000
"Strad" in a safe deposit vault.
The San Jose, Cal., branch of the Wiley B.
Allen Co., has opened a sheet music department
under the management of Mrs. Grace McFall.
NO WASTE=
NO SUBSTITUTION
We can afford to reserve the
Cream of the World's Wool
Clip for
American
Piano Hammer
Felt
—because we have a use for every
one of the lesser grades of wool.
And no wool that fails by the slight-
est degree to pass the most exacting
tests to which wool can be put is
ever allowed to enter into Ameri-
can Hammer Felt. Only resilient
wool, perfect in every fibre, clipped
from healthy sheep, is good enough
for our product.
SUCCESS WITH LAUTER IN DETROIT
The Lauter Co., of Newark, N. J., recently
shipped, in one order, five Style 190 mahogany
uprights to F. W. Henrich, of Detroit, Mich.
Mr. Henrich, who is known in the trade as a
very keen judge of piano tone and a critical
musician, has had great success with the Lauter
line in Detroit, where conditions are described
as being remarkable.
American Felt
Companv
ARTHUR HAHN APPOINTED TRAVELER
Arthur Hahn, who has been in the employ of
Krakauer Bros, for several years, was appointed
traveling representative last week and is now on
a trip visiting the dealers in New York State and
Pennsylvania. Mr. Hahn's promotion is a de-
served recognition of the years of service he
has given to Krakauer Bros.
100 Summer St.
BOSTON
114 East 13th St.
NEW YORK
325 So. Market St
CHICAGO
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